“I never thought she would do anything like that," White told NBC Philadelphia, with only his shoes showing for the camera. "I didn't know she was that type of person."

Eley, 19, was arrested June 12 along with the alleged hitman-to-be, 18-year-old Timothy Bynum of Darby.

After Eley wrote the status, and commented further that she wanted White “DEAD! HATE HIM,” Bynum responded on the social networking page: “say no more. what he look like. where he be at. need that stack 1st ima mop that bull."

A “stack” is slang for $1,000.

“I just took it upon myself to go ahead and make sure that I wouldn’t have any done to me,” White told NBC Philadelphia. “On pictures that [Bynum] has, he has guns his pictures on Facebook. So of course you wouldn’t take anything like that lightly.”

White went to police with his aunt, who was the first to see the threatening messages on Facebook.

After Monday’s court hearing, defense lawyer Gerald Stein said Eley was only venting and exchanged messages with Bynum for an hour, but never met him.

Eley and Bynum have been incarcerated since police arrested them in June.